I’ve just delivered some new paintings of varied sizes to Edgewater Gallery
for their new gallery in Stowe, Vermont. The grand opening will be December 9
and I hope to be there to see the new space — along with old (and new) friends.

The Center of Everything 26×30 oil on linen

This new barn painting is from a barn in Panton, Vermont.
Mary Oliver’s poem ‘Where Does the Dance Begin, Where Does It End?’
has a lovely line about ‘looking to the center of everything,
the seed, the egg, the idea.’ Looking through open barn
doors and getting a glimpse of light through the darkness within
reminds me of all the ways I keep searching for insight.

Mining the same vein, the funny little teapot is one of my favorite
pieces of pottery, and I decided I needed to paint it when I read the last
lines of Mary Oliver’s poem.

When the Sufi poet whirled, was he looking outward, to the mountains so solidly there in a white-capped ring, or was he looking

to the center of everything: the seed, the egg, the idea that was also there, beautiful as a thumb curved and touching the finger, tenderly, little love-ring,

as he whirled, oh jug of breath, in the garden of dust?

My teapot, called Jug of Breath, is not whirling,
but I can feel the vibrations as it gets ready to dance.

Posted November 25th, 2017 in News | Comments Off on new paintings for the new Edgewater Gallery in Stowe, Vermont